Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
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Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#2Does TPM support/requirements actually have any meaningful impact on a home user? I could understand being a requirement for Windows 11 Pro (which I believe has Bitlocker, but Home does not). I don't see why it would be required for Home, maybe some features just wouldn't be available, but are those features that people actually care about?
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#3As a side note, Windows Server 2025 appears to share the OS base with Windows 11, but it doesn't seem to have the same requirements of CPU/TPM? Or am I wrong? (not that I'm suggesting to use Windows Server as a client OS, especially given its price tag)
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#4Does TPM support/requirements actually have any meaningful impact on a home user? I could understand being a requirement for Windows 11 Pro (which I believe has Bitlocker, but Home does not). I don't see why it would be required for Home, maybe some features just wouldn't be available, but are those features that people actually care about?
> but are those features that people actually care about?
The users? No.
The corporations that make DRM? Yes.
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#5The title is misleading. Microsoft deleted their article documenting the bypass, not the workaround itself.
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#6My Mainboard has TPM turned off so I did not to sweat about the upgrade.
Now I will be forced to I guess.
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#7Does TPM support/requirements actually have any meaningful impact on a home user? I could understand being a requirement for Windows 11 Pro (which I believe has Bitlocker, but Home does not). I don't see why it would be required for Home, maybe some features just wouldn't be available, but are those features that people actually care about?
> but are those features that people actually care about? The users? No. The corporations that make DRM? Yes.
To corporations period regardless if they make DRM or not. Enterprises want any and all features under the security umbrella for their fleets.
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#8Does TPM support/requirements actually have any meaningful impact on a home user? I could understand being a requirement for Windows 11 Pro (which I believe has Bitlocker, but Home does not). I don't see why it would be required for Home, maybe some features just wouldn't be available, but are those features that people actually care about?
> but are those features that people actually care about? The users? No. The corporations that make DRM? Yes.
What are some examples of DRM that uses TPM? What does TPM provide that stuff like SGX (which is already used in DRM) doesn't provide?
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#9The requirements for Windows 11 has really put computers with older hardware in a difficult spot.
They are used to Windows so they want to stay there, I want to suggest Linux Mint but I am not aware of how much of the apps used daily is supported in Linux.
Not every user want to fiddle with the terminal.
Re: Microsoft deletes official Windows 11 CPU/TPM bypass for unsupported PCs
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but are those features that people actually care about? The users? No. The corporations that make DRM? Yes.
What are some examples of DRM that uses TPM? What does TPM provide that stuff like SGX (which is already used in DRM) doesn't provide?
There are none. It's so immensely frustrating to me that so many people believe that a TPM is a DRM device. I'm sure Richard Stallman's Treacherous Computing article played a big part in this.
A TPM is useless for DRM, and there are way more suited solutions like Intel's PAVP that takes an encrypted video stream and puts it on the screen directly, yet I don't see nearly as much uproar about that.